Apple Music Event in February 2006?

[Mac Dummy]

I hope Apple comes out with an 80Gb video Ipod. Using Toshiba's new 1.8" perpendicular hard drive. I read an article dated August 2004 that stated Toshiba was manufacturing a 1.8" "Ipod size" drive in this capacity. Let's all hope Apple was lucky enough to get their hands on some of these drives. As for the Ipod form factor, I like it. Its still pocketable, yet just large enough to enjoy say a Pixar short, video podcast, music video, movie trailer, or my favorite; Warner Bros. "Bugs Bunny", "Daffy Duck", "Willie Coyote and The Road Runner" cartoons.🙂 Heck, if the hard drive capacity was increased you could probably get an entire feature film on the device, without the special features of course.😎 You could do that with the current 60Gb model but it probably takes up a lot of space I would think.

 

[Nermal]

please God let it be so.

Don't get too excited, it's not actually all that great.

 

[frankblundt]

Don't get too excited, it's not actually all that great.

i know, but at least i could stop having to pay Amex their egregious foreign currency conversion fees.
And you never know, they might sell some of our tracks...

 

[Chundles]

I hope Apple comes out with an 80Gb video Ipod. Using Toshiba's new 1.8" perpendicular hard drive. I read an article dated August 2004 that stated Toshiba was manufacturing a 1.8" "Ipod size" drive in this capacity. Let's all hope Apple was lucky enough to get their hands on some of these drives. As for the Ipod form factor, I like it. Its still pocketable, yet just large enough to enjoy say a Pixar short, video podcast, music video, movie trailer, or my favorite; Warner Bros. "Bugs Bunny", "Daffy Duck", "Willie Coyote and The Road Runner" cartoons.🙂 Heck, if the hard drive capacity was increased you could probably get an entire feature film on the device, without the special features of course.😎 You could do that with the current 60Gb model but it probably takes up a lot of space I would think.

I encode feature films to about 650MB, with H.264 they look pretty good. I could fit nearly 100 of them on a 60GB iPod. Even if the iPod could play Video_TS folders, most of them are only ~6GB in size so you could get 10 of them on with no compression at all.

I don't know why you'd think you need 80GB just to get one movie on there.

 

[Mac Dummy]

I encode feature films to about 650MB, with H.264 they look pretty good. I could fit nearly 100 of them on a 60GB iPod. Even if the iPod could play Video_TS folders, most of them are only ~6GB in size so you could get 10 of them on with no compression at all.

I don't know why you'd think you need 80GB just to get one movie on there.

I don't think I need 80Gb in an Ipod. I WANT 80Gb in an Ipod. Just because its technologically possible. I'm one of those technophiles that thinks because we have the technology why not use it. Doing so can only make things better for Apple. I think that the 30 and 60Gb Ipods released in October 2005 was just Apple's way to appease the Ipod video fans and say to the industry that "video on a portable device is the next big thing and that we're going to do it better than anyone else has done it so far."

 

[Chundles]

I don't think I need 80Gb in an Ipod. I WANT 80Gb in an Ipod. Just because its technologically possible. I'm one of those technophiles that thinks because we have the technology why not use it. Doing so can only make things better for Apple. I think that the 30 and 60Gb Ipods released in October 2005 was just Apple's way to appease the Ipod video fans and say to the industry that "video on a portable device is the next big thing and that we're going to do it better than anyone else has done it so far."

Yeah, that's all well and good but you said you wanted 80GB cause then you could fit "a feature film" on it. You don't need 80GB for a feature film is what I'm saying.

80GB would be very cool, I was just correcting your impression that feature films took up nearly 60GB of space.

 

[matthewHUB]

ANY NEW THOUGHTS ON THIS EVENT NOW THAT THE 1GB NANO HAS ALREADY BEEN RELEASED? Sorry for the caps - do we have a date for this event? Perhaps a Valentines iHeart (remote controlled toyboy/girl) Wait - that would make the event 'NEXT TUESDAY'!!!

Just a thought,

M

 

[cycocelica]

Whatever happens, I will still be excited.

 

[Macnoviz]

Some ideas

We in Belgium are really hoping to get some video content on iTMS, which was announced to be released in 2006, we always have to wait to get new stuff like that (really bothering me, it's not like we are in the middle of nowhere)

I would also expect a new shuffle, like some have predicted

I'm really not an expert or even an amateur, so forgive me if this idea is silly, but it might also be adding a slot in the iPod for some form of media storage (like the sony UMD discs), giving the possibility to buy media or other stuff offline, or sharing it by writing from your iPod to the ??(I dunno)
It's a longshot, but it worked well for the PSP (hard to compare, but shares some features with the iPod)




(anyway, I'm rooting for a new iBook in March, so let's al hope and pray)

 

[Thanatoast]

I encode feature films to about 650MB, with H.264 they look pretty good. I could fit nearly 100 of them on a 60GB iPod. Even if the iPod could play Video_TS folders, most of them are only ~6GB in size so you could get 10 of them on with no compression at all.

I don't know why you'd think you need 80GB just to get one movie on there.

I don't understand the fascination with giant movie files. The iPod only plays up to a certain rez, right? I obtained (yes) a movie with a file size of ~650 megs. I used iSquint to re-rez and h.264 it down to iPod playable size and got a final size of ~180 megs. If I'm willing to watch tv shows at iPod rez, why not movies too and save some space?